Liberal Brainwashing for Dummies

Hiding among frivolous articles on the hottest t-shirts, the hottest teen star profiles, love quizzes and decorating tips, I found an egregious example of social programming perpetrated by the editors of Girls' Life Magazine. In the April/May 2006 issue, the fiction piece entitled “The Social Injustices of Brazelton High” by Taylor Morris, has enough liberal demagoguery in it to put James Carville out of a job.

This little story covers all the left-wing bases; alternative families, idiot adults, gun control, the whiny feminist line, teen promiscuity, the smoking police, sex education, the ACLU, and the coup de grace, Rush Limbaugh bashing. But don’t take my word for it.

"I'm sitting at the kitchen table, watching my mom wrap a Merle Haggard CD for her man-of-the-minute Arnold, whose birthday is this week. Her men last as long as it takes me to read a book--two to 10 days, depending on how interesting it (or he) is."

Right from the beginning, we know that the mom-in-question is single and easy. It then gets worse.

"I think you'll really like him.' Mom says. 'He works for a charity organization, so I'm sure he'll meet your high standards.'

'Mom, working full-time for the National Rifle Association is not some noble cause. Like, arming people with automatic weapons is supposed to make America safer? Please.'"

I agree, Ms. Morris…please! This stereotyping at its worst. All conservatives are jackasses, especially because of their belief in 2nd Amendment rights. (And I don’t remember the NRA’s push for fully-automatic weapon distribution, which illustrates another of life’s certainties; liberals lie.) Further into the story we find out that our heroine is a social soldier at school.

"This week's cause is home ec class, which I'm campaigning to have canceled or at least re-envisioned [...] it's a conspiracy to keep women in the home and out of the workplace." (author's note: the main character is holding a sign that says SEX ED INSTEAD! TEACH ME ABOUT MY BODY NOT MY HOME!)

So let me get this straight. We’re going to teach our young girls in today’s world that there are still people trying to keep them out of the workplace? I think Ms. Morris is living in a time-warp. Just try and find a modern man out there who will agree to give up the second salary so his wife can stay home to care for his children. If anything, we can thank the feminists for putting a new generation of women in a different kind of prison with cubicles and carpal tunnel. And what’s with the home ec bashing? I loved home ec! I was in high school 15 years ago and there were boys in my home ec class, and they had to sew ugly sweatshirts too.

Now, let's address the protest sign "SEX ED INSTEAD! TEACH ME ABOUT MY BODY NOT MY HOME!" ridiculousness. I think I've thoroughly proved that teenagers are overloaded with information about sex and bodies in the other books they're reading and the movies they watch. Does anyone really think that teens need to know MORE about sex? Thanks to our illustrious ex-president from Arkansas, every 3rd grader knows what a B.J. is. It became playground banter. There were studies done that concluded 9-year-olds knew what a "Lewinsky" was. There is no evidence that teens need to know more about sex (except for maybe how to stop doing it!) and yet the liberal establishment just insists that we keep bombarding them with more and more sex education. The idea that sex education is more important than learning how to take care of yourself, i.e. cook, clean up, make something useful, take care of a baby (which will undoubtedly be arriving after all the sex education is done) is patently absurd.

Now comes one of my favorite liberal plugs. Jacey, the main character, gets herself suspended by exposing a photo of the principal smoking on school grounds. (Smoking to liberals is worse than 12-year-olds having sex, fyi) The suspension gets the attention of none other than the ACLU! When contacted by an ACLU lawyer, Jacey gushes,

"The American Civil Liberties Union is only the preeminent defender of individual rights."

I guess if you consider defending individual rights to include the rights of child molestors, child murderers, and God-hating whackjobs who won't tolerate a cross on a state seal no bigger than an ant, then yeah...I guess they defend individual rights. Liberal individuals. I didn't see the ACLU jumping to help Rush Limbaugh when the Florida D.A. took his doctor's records illegally and invaded his individual rights. And speaking of Rush Limbaugh, Jacey laments at one point in the story about kids calling her a "femi-nazi", the famous phrase coined by the Maha-Rushie.

The entire story is a blatant attack on conservative values and it is done for the purpose of turning young people away from the values of their parents while leading them into the Democrat party. It is shameful because of its sly nature. It would be one thing if the Democrat National Committee put out a magazine for teens with their name on it. But rest assured, they will never do that. The only way liberals know how to win is to deceive people. Their strategy now comes in the form of sham entertainment, creeping unnoticed into the minds of your children.

There are other problems with this particular periodical. Girls' Life is strangely obsessed with doling out dating advice to their 10 to 15-year-old readers. Here in the Midwest, there aren't many parents who would let their 15-year-old out on a real date, let alone a 10-year-old. What is the rush to have children grow up so quickly? Dating is hell. Anyone over 25 and single knows this as fact. Why do magazine editors want to induct 10-year-olds into the dating drudgery? Wouldn't more appropriate topics for the tweens be "Great Soccer Tips" or "The Best Ballet Shoes" or "How to overcome a fear of horses"? Are we to believe that the only things that interest 10 to 12-year-olds are shopping, and kissing boys? If that is true, we have a generation of Paris Hiltons getting ready to start their useless lives.

If your 12-year-old suddenly has a bad attitude toward church, gun owners, loggers, or meat-eaters and is showing way too much interest in running the mall with boys, check her backpack for Girls' Life magazine.


**Author's Note** This article is part of a series of reviews of what teens are reading. Stay tuned for more disturbing stuff.